Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to eventually sort it out after a few sorta threats off the bank . |
| 2 | Is he further aware that last week we heard of a thousand signalling faults on British Rail followed by this further terrible accident in the Severn tunnel , involving signal faults and negligence yet again ? |
| 3 | Of a lithe skater hands behind her back |
| 4 | But , surely , we can not have advanced so far from the socialist follies and delusions of the 1960s and 1970s , which all the world now rejects , to embrace them again under the banners of Mr Kinnock and Miss Glenda Jackson , Nupe and the apostles of Political Correctness , Mr Roy Hattersley and the heroes of a hundred town halls from Lambeth to Liverpool ? |
| 5 | Its programmes are much the most susceptible to ‘ salami slicing ’ , since it is difficult to claim that the end of the world will come if the Army receives , say , ninety instead of a hundred tank replacements in a particular year . |
| 6 | 25 years ago there were almost a quarter of a million dairy farmers in England and Wales . |
| 7 | London has seen the disappearance of more than three quarters of a million manufacturing jobs in 20 years : an aggregate figure masking stagnation and decline in an inner south-east zone , and growth in the west , in part related to Heathrow Airport , as a ‘ high-tech ’ crescent ( Hall et al . , |
| 8 | Final closing of a remnant-ocean basin results in the thrusting of remaining sediments deposited along the continental margin on to the overriding plate and the crustal thickening produced leads to isostatic uplift ( Fig. 3.16(C) ) . |
| 9 | ( Part of the reason for this undoubtedly lay in the fact that the foraging hominids of whom we are speaking were in part already pre-adapted to upright posture by an evolutionary past different to that of today 's gelada baboon and because they probably already possessed cerebral development going beyond that of a mere monkey thanks to their common ancestry with today 's great apes . ) |
| 10 | The possibility of employing on the plane of a single work discourses of various types , with all their expressive capacities intact , without reducing them to a single common denominator — this is one of the fundamental characteristics of prose . |
| 11 | Repression followed , in the form of a special Winter Assizes at Lewes ; fifty-two men and women were tried , one was executed , seventeen transported to Australia , sixteen jailed and eighteen acquitted , sentences rather less severe than in many other counties . |
| 12 | It added that control of inflation was necessary , but it was important that ‘ a reduction of a few percentage points in the headline inflation rate should not be achieved at a disproportionate cost in terms of income creation and employment ’ . |
| 13 | Among the intelligentsia , hardly a voice was raised in its defence , with the exception of a few university teachers of Marxism-Leninism . |
| 14 | And the speech was indeed a frank catalogue of the state of the personal computer business today : revenues down 14% , Apple Computer Inc , IBM and DEC contemplating low margins and sinking market share , the astronomical cost of developing a new package , the failure of PCs to penetrate much beyond word processing and spreadsheets , the monopoly lock of a few software houses on the marketplace and engineering 's inability to develop an intuitive box , all conspiring to dissuade any sensible PC guy from putting any more money into research and development . |
| 15 | A curious problem is set by the discovery of a few jade axes in England recently . |
| 16 | For a modest sum , a family sitting in the comfort of their home could listen for a whole year to one performance nightly from a selection of theatres , music halls and concert halls with a choice of a dozen church services on Sundays . |
| 17 | As usual , after supper I played one of a dozen tape recordings of sermons by the Reverend John McArthur of Sun Valley , California . |
| 18 | Standing against a Labour candidate results in automatic expulsion . ’ |
| 19 | Against a dark background pieces of white card were moved in a plane perpendicular to the line of view until ‘ seen ’ . |
| 20 | One councillor governor champion co-ordinated a petition from children and parents and even had the full council in chamber addressed by a group of young children in successful campaigns for a new swimming baths for the area and for greater access by children to school playing fields outside school hours . |
| 21 | Colleagues , the Parliament of the European Community and of the United Kingdom have seriously considered the consequences of the spillage of eighty five thousand tons of oil from oil tanker which ran aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands on the fifth of January nineteen ninety three and for a considerable time socialists of the European Parliament have been complaining incessantly for greater safety at sea . |
| 22 | It was used for a few emergency landings by Royal Air Force planes during the recent Falklands War . |
| 23 | She eschewed all requests to be interviewed about the contest on radio or television , opting instead for a few newspaper interviews with sympathetic journalists . |
| 24 | He used to deliver messages for a few club owners on this patch , ’ Culley said . |
| 25 | Plans designs for a conservation area diagrams of how to put the alien 's spaceship back together how do we foil a bank robbery ? map of the giant 's castle — showing how we might set Jack free town plan of Hamelin . |
| 26 | This demand for a broader perspective trenches on the form and content of history in that it involves both enquiry into new areas and novel modes of explanation . |
| 27 | As a general point banks in many countries were highly regulated in relation to deposits and lending conducted in their own domestic currency . |
| 28 | The producers , Grosbard and Herb Gardner , should have known that as a general rule films with long titles have short runs . |
| 29 | Whether in London , Abu Dhabi or Al Ain , in a hotel or in the desert I searched for times of quiet as a starving man searches for food . |
| 30 | Thus Part Three examines the responses of a third State to an international crime of State , taking as a particular example acts of aggression , and examines how the concept of State responsibility may be used to bring some overall cohesion into the third party problem . |